Hello Imperfection!
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
The other day I read this quote from Zen Monk Shunryu Suzuki:
“You are perfect just as you are, and you could use a little improvement.”
I hesitate to say that the quote struck me as “perfect.” Some of us spend too much time worrying about getting it perfect that we don’t get it done.
I’m putting myself in this category as a recovering perfectionist. How about you?
The problem with perfectionism
At first glance, you may think that everything needs to be perfect, that you need to be perfect.
If it’s not perfect, you may put off releasing that new pattern, offering the new program, publishing your website, showing your art.
This list goes on and on. And, you get so caught up in this spiral of trying to make everything perfect that nothing gets done.
That’s the problem with perfectionism — it doesn’t work!